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Home > Sandwiches
Baltimore-Style Oysters Loaves
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
- 2 large, fresh-baked crusty French rolls (approx. 8 by 4)
- 4 oz. butter, softened
- 1 pint fresh oysters, rinsed and drained
- 1 or 2 eggs, beaten
- 1-1/2 cups fine saltine cracker crumbs
- 2 tsp. black pepper, or more to your taste
- vegetable shortening for frying
- approx. 1/4 cup Tabasco sauce
Preheat oven to 450 degrees (hot) Cut a large lid in the top of each French
roll, remove it and with your fingers scoop out the inside of the roll, leaving
about a 1 inch shell inside the roll and on the lid. Use a brush or the back of
a spoon to spread the softened butter all over the insides of the rolls and on
the underside of the lids. Place rolls, hollowed-out side down, on a cookie
sheet. Place lids buttered side down. Put the rolls and lids in the hot oven for
5-8 minutes, or until they begin to get crispy but BEFORE they begin the brown.
Remove rolls from oven and turn it down to 300 degrees. Pat dry the oysters.
Begin heating 1-1/2 inches of shortening in a heavy skillet. Four at a time, dip
the oysters in beaten egg,then in a mixture of the cracker crumbs and black
pepper. Drop a cracker crumb in the shortening--if it sizzles without turning
immediately brown, the shortening is the right temperature. Fry oysters four at
a time until they are light golden brown and crispy, turning after 2 minutes and
frying for a total of 3 minutes altogether. Remove to paper toweling. Repeat
with rest of the oysters, four at a time (too many oysters in pan brings down
temperature of the fat and makes them soggy).
Assembly: Put four fried oysters in the bottom of one of the French rolls.
Sprinkle them with Tabasco sauce to your taste. For the second layer, put in as
many more oysters as will fit in the roll with the lid snugly on top (usually
2-3 more oysters.) Sprinkle these with Tabasco and then put on the lid. Wrap
entire loaf tightly in aluminum foil and keep warm in a low oven. Repeat
assembly for second oyster loaf. Ready to serve! Get out some forks, paper
napkins, lemon wedges if you like, and some cold beer. This should be a shared
feast with everyone spearing oysters out of the loaf and, of course, munching on
the bread itself as they go along.
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